After execution of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, curfew in the Kashmir Valley has entered seventh day to prevent post-Friday prayer protests. This Friday will be the first after his hanging in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.
Meanwhile, sources claim that Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani,has asked people to offer funeral prayers in absentia and raise a collective demand for return of Afzal Guru's body to his kin at their local mosque.
The imposed curfew has been entered in its seventh day in old city areas of summer capital Srinagar, Baramulla, Sopore, Anantnag, Pulwama and Shopian towns.
However there was some relaxation and relief in curfew in other towns and the civilian line areas of Srinagar.
There is heavy deployment of police and paramilitary central reserve police force (CRPF) in all the cities and towns of the valley.
A senior official of the state government has confirmed that the letter written by Afzal's wife Tabassum for returning her husband's body forwarded by the state home department to the union home ministry (MHA) has been received in New Delhi.
(With inputs from IANS)
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